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Jan 12 4 tweets 2 min read
Here my Murrell 2014 thread. Now you may remember 'Yes Scotland' (eh #SNP HQ) were going to launch at intervals 3 billboards featuring a woman, started as a baby. Anyway ahead of the first billboard launch I'd a call from #Newsnight London saying they were heading to #Edinburgh/
For a 'Yes' focussed package, I'd already set them up for an interview with the Yes shop in Easter Rd from memory anyhoo could I tell them the locations of the billboards.I of course said yes, I'd get that detail for them. Turned to Blair J on the top table adjacent to/
the media desk, asked him the question expecting to be emailed all locations in Scotland WELL he very embarassedly told me Yes didn't hold that info that only Peter Murrell did and I quote ''he may or may not tell you'' #WTAF Blair gave me his email as he didn't take calls/
I duly emailed him WELL there was quite the to and fro as if I'd asked him something exceptionally controversial, I battered on trying hard not to lose the place with him for the greater good, what did I get in the end, 3 locations in #Edinbutgh nada more SHOCKING ENDS

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Jan 14
Ok today's thread. Earlyish August 2014 Yes and No were invited to BBC HQ at Pacific Quay to thrash out details for the planned BBC's Big Debate for thousands of 15/17 year olds at Glasgow's Hydro. Now until the day of the meeting Blair Jenkins and one of the Fleet St old timers/
were slated to go, about an hour before the late morning meeting Blair turned to me asked if I would come alomg, aye why not, so we get a taxi from Hope St. On arrival we were shown into a wee room where we were instructed to flesh out what our red lines were; I proposed two/
1/ That we go for a minimum of 3 each on the panel as Yes clearly had many more good performers to choose from AND 2/ We go for as an early a date as possible to get coverage and engagement with a decent time before the vote, that too close would be no good. They agreed/
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Jan 14
So ahead of today's main 🧵for fun my top 10 of the #indyref pops.
1/Andrew Fairlie 🙏Out at 55 Truly the best of us, there he was in 2014 running the 5 ⭐️Gleneagles restaurant ''Alison call me anytime you want and if I can I'll help out with interviews'' True gent, so humble/
This won't be popular and I know he can be rather pompous in public BUT privately different, so
2/ Pat Kane, he really put in a shift in 2014, could not have been more helpful, did everything he could to lessen my workload, which was eh rather heavy/
3/Joanna Cherry KC, always available when asked and she was a working legal 🦅in 2014
4/Aberdeen's Kenny Anderson, businessman super lad, James Cook featured him in various TV packages, aye #SNP blocked his candidacy ahead of the 2015 GE, aye like me too much, too challenging 😡/
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Jan 11
As promised my yarn on Shirley Anne Somerville from 2014. I worked on the Yes Scotland Media desk and was responsible for all broadcast bids, neither the two old Fleet St lads or Salmond's right hand man Kevin J Pringle could be bothered with all the logistics/
that you're required to deal with on top of securing an interview. From early August 2014 I was being asked by the big broadcasters, BBC, Sky, ITV where the post vote 'party' was taking place for Yes, they need to know well in advance so they can ensure they have the right rig/
For the life of me I could not find out Blair Jenkins claimed not to know, hmm, anyway nobody was telling me. Better Together made public their Glasgow hotel venue well in advance of course. We get to late August, still no info. As well as the 60 or so interview bids/
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